John Morin Scott (mayor)

John Morin Scott (25 October 1789-3 April 1858) was Mayor of Philadelphia (W) from 1841 to 1844, succeeding John Swift and preceding Peter McCall.

Biography
John Morin Scott was born in New York City, New York in 1789, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1805 and served as a trustee of Lafayette College from 1826 to 1847. From 1841 to 1844, he served as Mayor of Philadelphia, and, in the last year of his tenure, nativist riots broke out. He died in 1858.